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Decorative drawing: a small American settlement seen from a low hill. Not a photograph of this place.

Westwood Lake Park, Ohio

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Weathersfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 44481. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warren quadrangle.

Westwood Lake Park within Trumbull County

Then and now

1908 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 86 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Westwood Lake Park, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Westwood Lake Park, surveyed 1908

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Specimens collected nearby

12 of 153 shown

Museums hold 153 specimens collected within 10 miles of Westwood Lake Park between 1890 and 1973: 115 Animalia, 34 Plantae, 2 Protozoa, 2 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A. N. Rood, Almon N. Rood, Berry, R. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image SpeciesYear Collected by Where, as recorded
Specimen of Alternaria panax WhetzelAlternaria panax Whetzel1909W.P. WarrenGarden of Warren
Specimen of Pleosphaerulina briosiana PollacciPleosphaerulina briosiana Pollacci1927F.R. Jones; J.J. DavisNewton
Specimen of Asclepias tuberosa L.Asclepias tuberosa L.1928Rood, Almon N.Braceville Tp.,
A photograph of the species Eragrostis cilianensis, not of this specimenEragrostis cilianensis (All.) Vignolo ex Janch.1890Ingraham, R.H.Niles
A photograph of the species Obovaria unicolor, not of this specimenObovaria unicolor (I.Lea, 1845)1890Dean, G WNewton Falls, mill pond
A photograph of the species Desmodium glutinosum, not of this specimenDesmodium glutinosum (Muhl. ex Willd.) Alph.Wood1892Ingraham, R.H.Ailer
A photograph of the species Hemitrichia vesparia, not of this specimenHemitrichia vesparia (Batsch) T.Macbr., 18991893not recordedEvansville
A photograph of the species Metatrichia vesparia, not of this specimenMetatrichia vesparia (Batsch) Nann.-Bremek. ex G.W.Martin & Alexop., 19691893not recordedOhio: Evansville
A photograph of the species Neogale Gray, not of this specimenNeogale Gray, 18651894William Harvey BrownWARREN
A photograph of the species Bombus pensylvanicus, not of this specimenBombus pensylvanicus (De Geer, 1773)1905not recordedNiles
A photograph of the species Poa alsodes, not of this specimenPoa alsodes A.Gray1907Webb, R.J.; Rood, A.N.Braceville Twp
A photograph of the species Desmodium canadense, not of this specimenDesmodium canadense (L.) DC.1908Rood, A.M.Newton Twp., Mohoning R. N of Newton Falls

All 153 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries nearby

4 within 5 miles

The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Westwood Lake Park: 3 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Metal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Niles Plant TiTitanium, MetalPlant1950
Copperweld Corp/ Warren, OhioIronProducer
Republic Steel/ Niles, OhioIronProducer
Thomas Strip Steel/ Warren, OhioIronProducer

Every working recorded in Trumbull County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Niles Junction0.3 miles13
Lake Park Estates1.2 miles13
South Niles2.2 miles13
Niles2.3 miles13
DeForest Junction2.3 miles13
Soaptown2.4 miles13
DeForest2.5 miles13
Evansville2.7 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122570463The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2513476. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.